- Usage
- Matrix correction and remapping
Matrix correction and remapping
As of StarTools 1.6, the Color module comes with a vast number of camera color correction matrices for various manufacturers (Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Pentax and more), as well as a vast number of channel blend remappings for narrowband dataset (e.g. HST/SHO or bi-color duoband/quadband filter data).
Uniquely, thanks to the signal evolution Tracking engine, this color calibration is preferably performed towards the end of your processing workflow. This allows you to switch color rendering at the very last moment at the click of a button without having to re-composite and re-process, while also allowing you to use cleaner, non-whitebalanced, non-matrix corrected data for your luminance component, aiding signal fidelity.
Camera Matrix correction towards the end of your processing workflow on your chrominance data only, rather than in the RAW converter during stacking, further helps improve luminance signal, by not contaminating it with cross-channel camera-space RGB and XYZ-space manipulations.
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